Pain In Horses

Pain is defined as "a feeling of distress, suffering, or agony caused by stimulation of specialized nerve endings." The scientific term for the perception of pain is "nociception," with noci the Latin for "harm or injury."

Pain and its control are one of the largest topics in medicine. A quick literature search on only one database going back to 1986 yields 58,700 articles

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